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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Newts vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.geomesa.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Softmotions

CCRi and others

OpenNMS Group

Sequoiadb Ltd.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

2011

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

HTTP REST
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

simple password-based access control

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